I apologize for the length of this, but this case is going to go for a while, and there's a lot of evidence and a lot of facts that I've got to tell you about.

And when we broke for the last recess, I was going to chat with you a little bit about Allan Park. And Allan Park is the limo driver. And he came down Sunset; he turned right on Rockingham. He goes up and hadn't really recognized the house when he drives past Rockingham, and then turns right, onto Ashford (referring to diagram of Rockingham).

He turns right onto Ashford. His testimony will be he turns the limo around and parks it on the north side of the street, knows he's pretty early. It's 10:20, 10:22. He gets out of the limo, smokes a cigarette, and stays basically there until about 10:40.

He's got the vehicle in the area on Ashford. He drives around at that point and looks into the gate at Rockingham, and sees that it's possibly not quite as accessible, and drives back an parks the limousine with the limousine facing down the driveway.

Now, he then -- from 10:20 to 10:40, he basically out of the limousine.

He's then in and out of the limousine, punching the intercom, while Mr. Simpson is in the shower and doesn't get out of the shower.

Now, Allan Park, if he's here, and O.J. drives his Bronco up here, is going to hear it.

He doesn't hear anything. He doesn't hear a door slam; he hears nothing. And the reason he doesn't hear anything is because the Bronco is there all the time.

Now, his testimony is going to be that he doesn't recall seeing any cars on Rockingham. His testimony is also going to be that here in the driveway were two vehicles, Mr. Simpson's Bentley and another car behind it. Arnelle's Saab wasn't there. She didn't get home until 1 o'clock that morning. It wasn't there when he was there.

But he'll testify he recalls seeing it. And he testified that it's an innocent mistake of recollection that it was here. And he testifies even though his car is parked on Rockingham at the time and he didn't recall seeing one, one car from Sunset down to Mr. Simpson's house.

In any event, ladies and gentlemen, he does see, at 10:55, when he gets off the phone, Kato Kaelin coming out this way. Kato lets him in. He drives up, picks up -- puts the golf bag in the back of his vehicle, and he's chatting with Kato Kaelin about the thumps that Kato Kaelin heard.

Now, you heard read why he had from Mr. Petrocelli, why Kato Kaelin heard those thumps at 10:50. Kato Kaelin testified that he heard those thumps at 10:40. In fact, he was on the telephone to his girlfriend, Rachel Ferrara. She testified that he asked her at 10:40 -- he asked her at 10:40 if there's been an earthquake. And so it was at 10:40 that he heard the (counsel indicates banging noise) that he testified to in the preliminary hearing -- that he testified to in the criminal trial.

As I suggested, when O.J. has gone out to his Bronco not to get the exact cell phone, the portable cell phone, but as I indicated to you, the case and the charger, and comes back around, picks up the golf bag, the little ball bag, and his -- I believe his windbreaker that he had, that he put inside the golf bag, and goes back over to where the limo is.

That's when O.J. again hears Kato and Allan Park, the driver, talking about these thumps.

That's when he they go into the kitchen and that's when O.J. notices blood on his hand, wipes it off, and thinks nothing of it; goes out, gets back in the limo, and heads to the airport.

Now, you've heard a lot about cuts on O.J. Simpson's hand.

Well, I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, along with the cuts and the fact that this man was in some sort of rage, Allan Park didn't think Mr. Simpson was in any sort of rage. And we're going to come back in a moment to the time line as to whether or not Mr. Simpson could have murdered two people between 10:40 and 10:45 -- as Mr. Petrocelli told you about yesterday -- 10:40 and 10:45, and be seen back in his driveway at 10:55. But I'm going to get back to that in a moment.

What happens is that after he's in the limo and he goes to LAX, he is seen by a couple of people as he gets out of the vehicle, a Michael Gladden and a Michael Norris. And you will hear their testimony. O.J. is calm, cordial, friendly. In fact, I believe the evidence will indicate that Michael Gladden had asked him for an autograph. He started to the gate and then remembered that he hadn't given Gladden an autograph, turned around, gave him an autograph, and then went on to the gate.

Now, those people will tell you that Mr. Simpson's demeanor was cordial, calm, warm, nice. They will tell you he signed and the autographs for them, ladies and gentlemen. He had a pen in his hand; he had no cuts, not a cut on his hand.

He gets in the airplane, and in the airplane is a fellow by the name of Howard Bingham Now, Howard Bingham was Mohammed Ali's personal photographer, and he'd known O.J. for years. And Howard Bingham approached, and he came up and talked to O.J. in first class. And he said -- and he'll testify he was warm, he was cordial, he was nice, like he always is. He did not have a cut on his hand.

Steve Valerie, sitting across the aisle in the same row as O.J. Simpson -- by the way, he wasn't asleep; the whole first-class section is not asleep. He notices O.J. interacting with all the other passengers. And he is more inquisitive because he is looking at O.J.'s hand for a Super Bowl ring.

Now, O.J. was inducted into the National Football League Hall of Fame, but O.J. never played in the Super Bowl, neither for Buffalo nor for San Francisco ever played in the Super Bowl during the time that O.J. was a member of the team. So he was looking at his hands. He saw absolutely no cuts.

Wayne Stanfield was the captain of the American Airlines flight that night. He heard O.J. was on the plane, so he comes back out of the cockpit after they're airborne and talks to O.J. Again, warm, cordial, very nice, like he always is. No cuts whatsoever on his hands.

The plane touches down in Chicago. And Jim Merrill, an employee of Hertz, had been designated to pick up O.J. early in the morning. This is a red-eye -- O.J. had taken a red-eye because he wanted to be at his daughter's recital. He knew he had to be in Chicago for Hertz. That's part of what he did for a living. So he had taken this red-eye.

And it's 6 o'clock in the morning, basically, in Chicago. And Jim Merrill picks him up. O.J. is normal, cordial, was through the airport. He had checked his fold-over Louis Vitton bag; he checked his golf clubs. They waited for the clubs. Jim Merrill says there wasn't a cut on his hand; he was nice to everybody, warm, cordial.

Then they go to the hotel. O.J. Simpson dropped off in the early morning hours, as I said, goes into the lobby, signs autographs when people see him. The clerk at the desk sees O.J. sign autographs. He does not have a cut on his hand.

Then, he goes upstairs to his room and goes to bed, to get a few hours' sleep before he's got to get up and be transported back to this golf course to play golf all day long, then attend a banquet that evening. That's the plan; that's what he was there for; that's what Hertz pays him for.

He is awoken at about 8:30 Chicago time, 6:30 our time, and he's told that his former wife is dead; she's been killed. And he is absolutely distraught. The police won't tell him how; they won't tell him what happened. He asks about his kids. They've been taken to the police station. He is exceedingly upset. He's distraught. He doesn't know what to do.

He calls Cathy Randa, his assistant. He calls Leroy Taft. Leroy Taft is his manager, his friend, his lawyer. And he says, I have got to get back to LA. I've got to bet back to LA. And he's making calls an he's rushing, between trying to pack his toiletries, and he's rushing between the phone, which is by his bed, and the bathroom, and he cuts -- Breaks a glass. You'll see pictures of it there. The Chicago police went in afterwards, took pictures of it. You'll see the bloody towel. And he is rushing back and forth, and he cuts his hand on the middle finger of his left hand with the glass.

And he is frantic. He calls Jim Merrill, the guy who picked him up the night before. He doesn't know if Jim Merrill lives five minutes or 45 minutes or 55 minutes from the airport, but he does know -- because he called downstairs, contrary to what Mr. Petrocelli says -- he does know there are no cabs. He then is frantic, calls him back for the car. You've got to get here. I've got to get back to Los Angeles.

Within 65 minutes of being told that his wife, former wife has been killed, the mother of his children, he's on an airplane back to Los Angeles. He goes down into the lobby area of the hotel, and in the lobby area of the hotel, he asks the clerk for a band-aid because he cut his finger. She sees it at that time, not the night before, not a few hours before, and he gets on the airplane. And he sits next to a fellow by the name of Mark Partridge.

Mark Partridge is an attorney. O.J. -- again, he's frantic. Again -- let me go back. I missed something, and it's important. I want to tell you about it.

Jim Merrill has testified that the O.J. that called him the morning of the 13th was a far different O.J. Simpson than he picked up a few hours before. He was agitated; he was totally distraught. He didn't know what to do. He couldn't react; he was grief-stricken. So he gets -- as he comes down -- and I missed this, too -- he comes down, and another Hertz employee, by the name of Raymond Kilduff, had come into the hotel, and he had dropped off some other people who were going to be transported out to the golf tournament that same day. And O.J. asked him frantically if he could give him a ride to the airport.

And Killduff will testify that O.J. Simpson was agitated, he was upset; he just was beside himself. And he's the guy that took O.J. to the airport.

And Cathy Randa, his assistant, had gotten him two flights, because she didn't know if he could get out there quick enough. And he had one flight, then he had another one, I think, 40 minutes later that he was booked on. And I don't want to dispel the idea of the golf clubs and his consciousness of guilt here.

What the evidence is going to show, ladies and gentlemen, the evidence is going to show that O.J. Simpson, when he got to the hotel in the early morning hours of the 13th, left his golf clubs in the car that Jim Merrill had picked him up in.

When he found that he could make the early flight and get back, he didn't wait for his golf clubs. He didn't wait for Jim Merrill, who was on the way with his golf clubs in the trunk. He grabbed, as any human being would after being told your wife -- former wife has been murdered, the mother of your children has been murdered, took the first available vehicle he could find to get to the airport he didn't care about his golf clubs.

So he gets back to the airport. As I said, he's seated just next to Mark Partridge, an attorney. And O.J., again, is just distraught -- and Mark Partridge has testified to this -- he is upset; he is crying.  He is on the airplane. He didn't know what to do.

He calls Kato a couple of times. The air phone cuts off. He calls Cathy Randa. He calls Skip. He is trying to find out what had happened to Nicole, and he can't find out.

Now, he arrives at LAX. He didn't check his bags coming back; he carried -- he took his suit bag, pulled it into his fold-over bag, had his fold-over bag and grip bag. That's what he had coming back.

He gets out of LAX on the 13th, and now this event, the murders of June 12, 1994, becoming big, big media business. They are everywhere.  But he gets out of the airport; he gets into Skip Taft's automobile. He's got his grip in one hand and he's got his Louis Vitton he throws in the back seat, I believe, with Cathy Randa and Skip Taft, and he goes directly to Rockingham.

When he gets to Rockingham, it is in the morning, right around noon, I think, somewhere about there, our time.

The crime scene is roped off with yellow tape, like that stuff sticking outside on the doors, or just on the side of the doors. And he has this black duffel bag, slant grip, as he calls it, in his hand.  And Cathy Randa gets out of the car and takes his fold-over Louis Vitton with him.

Well, they let O.J. and Skip Taft into the estate. They won't let Cathy Randa in; she's not a lawyer. This is a crime scene. They let Skip in because he is O.J.'s lawyer. She's standing from -- with this grip. She offers it to the police, this fold-over Louis Vitton bag. They wouldn't take it. She says, take it, put it in the house, or take it. They wouldn't do it.

Simultaneously to that, Bob Kardashian had heard that O.J. was coming back to his house. He heard on the news this horrible event, and he changes direction and goes to O.J.'s house. He pulls up in his car, and there's Cathy Randa standing outside, because when Skip, as I recall, gets off the out of car, he locks it. She can't even get back in the car; she is standing there.

You'll see a tape of them hugging and her handing Bob Kardashian the fold-over, if you will, Louis Vitton bag, and he throws it in his car.

And the police do not ask for that piece of luggage for months. And when they ask for it, it is immediately given to them.

And I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, this is a test. It's a presumptive test. And what it is -- you'll hear the word Luminol possibly throughout this case. It will have a lot -- be repeated over and over again to you. But there is a chemical called Luminol. You can put it on something, and it's a presumptive test for blood. In other words, if you cut your hand and you put Luminol on it, it turns blue; you can see it. What it really does is, as I understand it -- I'm certainly not a chemist -- is, it recognizes, if you will, oxidation.

So, in any event, that bag was thoroughly tested by the Los Angeles Police Department, and you can determine if this test and others, if an item has ever had blood on it. Inside, outside, you can determine that.

That Louis Vitton bag had never had blood on it at all.

They did that test to the golf bag, as well. Never blood on it at all.

In any event, to continue on with the chronology, O.J., the minute he gets into his estate, is handcuffed.

And then he has walked over by the street tree and Phil Vannatter, has the handcuffs removed. And they chat.

Now, Howard Weitzman, also a lawyer, was there. The reason that Howard Weitzman was there in the estate when O.J. Simpson got there is because of Mark Partridge, the attorney I told you about that sat next to O.J. on the flight out.

During the communications with Mark Partridge and O.J., O.J. had told him, "The police want to talk to me."

And Partridge said, "You better have a lawyer there."

Skip Taft is a lawyer; he's a business lawyer. He's O.J.'s manager and a business lawyer; he's not a criminal lawyer.

Howard Weitzman was called. Howard Weitzman was a lawyer.

So Vannatter says to O.J., "I want to take you downtown and I want to ask you some questions."

Now, O.J. is still standing there with this grip. O.J. says, "Fine, we'll gone downtown now." Here's a man that's had two hours' sleep in the last 36 or whatever it is, 40 hours, going downtown to be interviewed.

They are going downtown, and John Vannatter and Lange put O.J. in the police car, and have his lawyers, Skip Taft and Howard Weitzman, drive downtown to Parker Center in a separate car.

When they get down there, Vannatter says, "Look, I don't think you need a lawyer. We can do this interview without you having an attorney present."

And O.J. doesn't have anything to hide; he agrees to that, says that's fine.

You will hear the interview that was done on O.J. Simpson at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of June 13, 1994. Now, that interview is recorded, and O.J. is tired. You will hear him tell the police about having the cut and the drop of blood that I told you about after he came back from getting the case and charger to his phone from his Bronco.

You will hear O.J. Simpson tell him about cutting his finger in Chicago; it's in here.

You will hear O.J. Simpson say he doesn't know what's going on. You will hear him ask Vannatter and Lange and tell them he's been asking for hours for you guys to tell me what's going on. You won't do it; you say you'll tell me in a little bit.

And they don't tell him.

They say, we've got two killings here, and O.J. doesn't know how those killings occurred. He says, I've got guns at my house.

Go get the guns.

Knowing those guns hadn't been fired, they said, "O.J., we've got a problem here. There's blood at your house.

He said, give me a blood test. Give me a blood test.

Consciousness of guilt? Consciousness of innocence.

Why would he let them take his blood? Why would they let him interview him without a lawyer? Why would he let them ask him about --

Objection. Argumentative.

That's sustained.

Consciousness of innocence.

So they finish taking his statement at about 2:30 in the afternoon of the 13th, and then they take O.J. up on his offer to take blood, and they go down and they have this nurse, LAPD nurse, Spano Peratis, takes his blood in a syringe that's duly marked per CC boom, boom, boom on the syringe.

He testifies under penalty of perjury now, at the preliminary hearing, when this -- everybody knows this is a high-profile case of importance that's televised. He testifies.

"How much blood did you take, Mr. Peratis?"

"7.9 to 8.1 cc's."

There's no doubt that's what he testified to. So let's just round it off at eight cc's of blood.

And they release O.J. Simpson. And O.J. Simpson goes to his office because he can't go home; they still have it quarantined off as a crime scene. And then he goes to his office, and he ultimately goes to his house.

And you've heard from my worthy adversaries. I've heard them say that O.J. said to Kato, for example, on the night -- the evening of the 13th, you saw me go into the house, didn't you?

I'll tell you what O.J. said to Kato Kaelin. Kato was going to be interviewed by O.J.'s lawyers. O.J. Simpson said to Kato Kaelin, "Just tell the truth." That's all he said, "tell the truth."

And then O.J. was under the cover of darkness and surreptitiously because his house had become a zoo -- there were people everywhere; there were cameras everywhere. There were boom mikes; there were people on ladders, trying to look into his home. And so they got him out of there the next morning and they got him over to Bob Kardashian's, where he remained to until the 17th.

And O.J., of course, went to Nicole's funeral on the 16th, I believe. On the 17th, he had perhaps the most outstanding criminalist in the world at his house -- at Kardashian's house. Pardon me.

And what O.J. had done and his lawyers had done, they said to the LAPD and to the LA District Attorney's office, "We will give you the services, at Mr. Simpson's expense, of the world's best detective and the world's best forensic scientist, and let the cards fall where they may."

That offer was refused by the LAPD and the LA District Attorney's office.

So Henry Lee, who is possibly the best known criminalist in the world, flew out from Connecticut. He took a bunch of pictures of Mr. Simpson. He did some presumptive tests around his house relative to blood.

Robert Heidstra was there. They took some pictures of Mr. Simpson, showing absolutely no bruises whatsoever. None. He had some cuts on his left hand. He had a cut where he cut himself in Chicago, and he had additional cuts that he had incurred since he had been back.

And you will hear testimony, ladies and gentlemen, that O.J. Simpson was just distraught. He was under heavy medication. He could not believe that people -- that the media would accuse him of killing his former wife, the mother of his children, and leaving her body at the stairs so that his children could find them.

He couldn't believe it. And he had a very hard time, and he was under heavy, heavy medication. And he wrote a note on the 15th -- and let me read you the part that Mr. Brewer just failed to read to you.

That's argumentative, Your Honor.

Overruled.

It should -- is it there? Would you check it, please?

I'm sorry. No, I've got it under all this paper. I apologize.

The first words that Mr. Simpson wrote, first, everyone understand I had nothing to do with Nicole's murder. Then he goes on, and it says -- I guess I was wrong yesterday. I shouldn't have said it's not to be referred to as a suicide note. It is. And he thanks the people that have been his great life-long friends.

And then on the 17th, after Nicole's funeral and after these criminalists and doctors have taken blood from him, after they've taken pictures of him, after they found that he has no bruises, no nothing, O.J. knows absolutely true knows that he is going to be arrested for the death of his former wife.

And that did not make any difference to Mr. Simpson; he was not concerned at this time about an arrest or the police or whatever he was going to do as far as the rest of his life.

He was grief-stricken. He will tell you better than I could ever tell you.

And you will hear from him. You will hear from him that what he wanted to do was to go down and be with Nicole, is what he wanted to do, end his life and be with Nicole.

And he went down and got in the car and they went down to Laguna. When they got to the grave, the cemetery where Nicole was buried,

little ways further, into an area where there was an orange grove. And O.J. certainly more then contemplated ending his life, came very close, and was talked out of it by his great friend, Al Cowlings.

We all need an Al Cowlings.

And then the most famous television saga, perhaps, of our time, came back to Los Angeles. And you'll hear some descriptions. You'll hear some cell phone conversations about that very, very traumatic time.

And you can make your own judgment if Mr. Simpson was going to flee. But let me tell you, you've heard about this consciousness of guilt.

What was in this black grip or this duffle bag?

Well, when O.J. returned from Chicago on June 13, that bag was opened by Phil Vannatter. He looked into that bag; and there was in that bag, Mr. Simpson's passport, this disguise which was never used, and I mean, can you -- you know, if Mr. Simpson were to use a disguise and his passport, his passport photo then doesn't match what he looks like with the disguise on. He can't go anywhere. But think about it.

He had like $8,000 on him. And what perhaps is most important, by the way, what was in there, passport, the stuff when Vannatter took Mr. Simpson's grip from him and put it in his car, on June 13th.

In fact, you'll hear on the tape, when they interview him, they talk about that grip, and Vannatter will I say, it's in my car. They had total custody and control of that. It wasn't a disguise for Mr. Simpson to run and hide. And as I mean to tell you that, the things that weren't in there are possibly more important than the things that were in there.

Mr. Simpson is -- has severe arthritis. He takes 800 units of Motrin in the morning and 800 units of Motrin in the evening.

There was no Motrin in there. And this isn't Motrin we can get at Payless; this is Motrin that's prescribed.

There were no toiletries in there. He had given the money of $8,700 to Al Cowlings. And he had given it to him because he thought he was going to take his life. And this was no consciousness of guilt.

Mr. Simpson then came back and he wanted to see his mother. He drove to Rockingham and he saw his mother.

The police handcuffed him and they took him down to jail for 490 days in solitary confinement for two murders he did not commit.

Is this a good time, Your Honor?

I take it you want a break?

I would appreciate it.

1:30.

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